The Guardians of the Hidden Scepter

by | Mar 9, 2011 | Reading

Genre: Adventure Ages: 11-15 Here’s Frank’s latest book. (He’s the author of the awsome Hashbrown Winters series that my family enjoyed reading. I interviewed him here.) I can’t wait to read his new book. And isn’t is lucky I have a...

Preg Checking

by | Feb 20, 2011 | Farm & Family

One winter morning over Christmas break it was time to see if the bull had done his work. This is Nate’s sister Hayley with her newest baby. Hayley did something really smart about five years ago. She married a veterinarian. Now he spends his Christmas vacation...

Perilous by Tamara Hart Heiner

by | Feb 7, 2011 | Reading

This is Tamara (with her husband). She’s one of the first friends I made in blogland, and is a new author. Her book Perilous came out last November. I bought and downloaded the ebook version of this book using my husband’s iPad. The only problem is he...

Sundays: Always an Adventure

by | Jan 11, 2011 | Musings

On his first day of Sunbeams (during his class), this little boy told his teacher he needed to use the bathroom. He’s not really potty trained yet, but occasionally he does tell me, so with the baby in one arm I took my three-year old by the hand downstairs to...

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

by | Dec 8, 2010 | Reading

Genre: Middle Grade Historical Fiction (Age 9 and up) Amazon.com Review The evacuation of Jews from Nazi-held Denmark is one of the great untold stories of World War II. On September 29, 1943, word got out in Denmark that Jews were to be detained and then sent to the...